This is more than just a regular calculator. It helps you calculate percentages, sale prices, gratuities, loans & even lets you calculate what day of the week dates will occur in the future as well as when they did in the past. Plus it is a regular calculator as well. (iPhone - $1.99)
Similar to the app Fruit Ninja, Factor Samurai takes this concept & turns the fruit into numbers. Students slice through all numbers that have divisible factors for points or let the numbers pass that are prime numbers. For example, students can slice 25 into 5 & 5, but they can’t slice 5, as it is a prime number. Three different levels of play – grasshopper, apprentice, & master. As students gain point they will be rewarded with different colored samurai swords. A fast paced game that is a great app to help kids learn multiplication & division facts, & also helps kids learn factors of numbers in a game format. ($2.99)
Middle School Numeracy Apps
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5 Dice: Order of Operations Game
An order of operations game using dice. A challenging way for students to build & solve math equations. (free)
Calcul8
This is more than just a regular calculator. It helps you calculate percentages, sale prices, gratuities, loans & even lets you calculate what day of the week dates will occur in the future as well as when they did in the past. Plus it is a regular calculator as well. (iPhone - $1.99)
Factor Samurai
Similar to the app Fruit Ninja, Factor Samurai takes this concept & turns the fruit into numbers. Students slice through all numbers that have divisible factors for points or let the numbers pass that are prime numbers. For example, students can slice 25 into 5 & 5, but they can’t slice 5, as it is a prime number. Three different levels of play – grasshopper, apprentice, & master. As students gain point they will be rewarded with different colored samurai swords. A fast paced game that is a great app to help kids learn multiplication & division facts, & also helps kids learn factors of numbers in a game format. ($2.99)
Math Quizzer
Math Quizzer is used for practicing math facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division. (iPod – free)
Quick Math+
Four leveled games where students write on the screen to practice quick recall with keeping track of their scores for improvement. ($1.99)
Last Updated - May 2014